The Political Theory of John Dewey

Title: The Political Theory of John DeweyAuthor(s): A. H. SomjeePublisher: Teachers College Press, New YorkISBN: , Pages: 208, Year: 1968Search for book at Amazon.com

In one sense this work is a promise betrayed. Respecters of
Dewey's thought are aware of the extreme scarcity of works,
critical or otherwise, which stem from a genuine understanding of
his philosophy. Any contribution to remedy this situation would be
welcome, since critical appraisal and assimilation of Dewey's
philosophy are delayed not so much by honest rejection of his work
as by the persistence of those misapprehensions which occurred
throughout his career.
In truth the promise evoked is stated more clearly in Richard
McKeon's careful and generous foreword than by Somjee himself,
whose very title is enough to raise eyebrows among Dewey scholars.
Dr. McKeon begins with a remarkably fair statement of Dewey's
thought in relation to politics. He even remarks that the
philosopher ". . . lived to see the development of international
politics and the United Nations after the second World War . . .,"
a bit of information apparently unavailable to some of Dewey's more
"contemporary" critics, who have made commonplace the... (preview truncated at 150 words.)

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